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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Designed to be Forgotten: Visual Anonymization in Ecological Publishing. Bring back the unique personalities of journals. bring back diversity in design, argues @emoqanaki.bsky.social Happy to have published this in the latest Bulletin of the ESA @esajournals.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

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BULLETIN
ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Communicating Science
• Open Access

Designed to be Forgotten: Visual Anonymization in Ecological Publishing
Ehsan Moganaki

First published: 08 September 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70102 |
Abstract

For over three centuries, the visual identity of scientific journals served as a mark of institutional and disciplinary heritage. In recent years, however, an industry-wide consolidation of journal publishing has been accompanied by a convergence toward standardized, interchangeable layouts. I argue that the transition to homogeneous designs is not a technical inevitability but a production optimization, one that often subordinates reader engagement and disciplinary identity to production efficiency. Layout functions as an access structure, shaping how readers navigate and interpret the scientific record. Therefore, its impoverishment is a communicative loss, not merely an aesthetic one. I contend that ecology, a field defined by diversity at every scale, has particular reason to resist the visual anonymization of its journals and to treat layout as a meaningful dimension of scientific communication.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 10h

Which recurrence plot you would prefer: 1) Stroke, 2) Lesion, or 3) Normal? 🧪 #Complexity

Representative SRPs generated by NeuroPrint from co-registered T1/T2/FLAIR MRI slices (Two samples per class, KURDI-MRI).

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 10h

'Phylogenetic jungle' of early ecomorphologically diverse actinopretygians: "Early actinopterygians are a paraphyletic assemblage of ~600 extinct species divided between ~22 named clades and the “palaeoniscoids,” a..wastebasket" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Ecomorphological diversity in early actinopterygians, including body shape and teeth (th)

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 14h

As AI systems become more capable in helping in the scientific inference, the challenge becomes the understanding of their inner workings and biases which they can introduce (in arguably different inhuman ways) in the study. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪

Comparison of detection performance across five categories of research pitfalls and their overall average. From left to right, panels display accuracy, true positive rate (TPR), false positive rate (FPR), and F1 Score. Error bars represent 95% CI computed via bootstrapping.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Vrba'ian" approach in understanding evolution connecting morphology, phylogeny, and the development 👇 "the earliest...evidence of the African buffalo lineage...conserved allometry and heterochrony in the evolutionary history of Syncerus" sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/defaul... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Basal horn core anteroposterior (DAP) and transverse (DT, dorso-ventral in Syncerus Hodgson, 1847) diameters in: A, African fossil and extant bovins

Holotype cranium of Syncerus ekosowan n. sp. OMO 53-10001: A, dorsal; B, ventral; C, anterior; D, posterior; E, left lateral; F, occlusal views. Scale bars: A-E, 10 cm; F, 5 cm.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lol, for a moment thought that it was a rogue hacked (or hacking, pun intended) robot incident 😬

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Tug of war' in major bryozoan clades, and the environment-dependence of their dominance: "...lower average temperatures and greater seasonality could give cyclostome bryozoans with relatively slower metabolism an edge in higher latitudes." academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Proportions of cheilostome species versus latitudes in fossil to Recent assemblages.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This really cheared my Friday: Paleoartists you are supported even by the pope 👇 #Paleobio

Pope Leo XIV declaration on the nature of arts

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So in what is unfortunately now an ~annual~ reminder - the Paleontological Research Institution is not presently affiliated with Cornell and was never a part of Cornell. Some PRI folks have taught students at Cornell, but donating to PRI supports Research and Education, and doesn't support Cornell

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True. The correct and fruitful identifications of the unknown in the field is the first step in setting and exciting journey of discovery! www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

science.org

I thought ‘I don’t know’ signaled scientific incompetence. Now, I know different

When this researcher started a postdoc, he felt he was expected to present himself as knowledgeable

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The temporal inertia, legacy and 'memory' causing regional-scale extinction in the Ordovician: "broad accumulations of linguliformean shells and phosphatic hardground clasts...released phosphorous nutrients into the overlying water." www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Obolus Eichwald, 1829
https://fossiilid.info/1268?mode=in_baltoscandia

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My priors about chimp anti-sociality confirmed: They stole from "friends" 61% of trials, from non-friends 70% of trials. Continues to be one of the biggest puzzles about human evolution, which mechanisms and evolutionary history make humans qualitatively more cooperative than other apes.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you for the offering Jindra but I think that much better candidate for the seminar on the theme of the paper would be Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social — he is the prime mover of the higher-order interactions in biology. Here for example his other recent paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Hypergraphs in ecology link non-equilibrium dynamics and conservation - Communications Physics

Ecosystems in the Anthropocene exhibit complex dynamics that traditional ecological networks with pairwise interactions only partially capture. Here, the authors review hypergraphs as a framework for ...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great to see this paper on the importance of higher-order interactions in sustaining organization across scales published! Thank you @svalver.bsky.social for leading the effort in which I've been a small part. The paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #Complexity #EvoBio #Macroecology

Assembly–persistence space across biological organization.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Revealing interview. When we know that LLM's steal the solutions and hack their way by any means in solving tasks, we've heading towards the age of guarded ideas. How can you preserve your originality? Disconnect your idea/data files from the Internet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzbt... 🧪

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The Buckmaster Interview (Navier-Stokes) - Numberphile

YouTube video by Numberphile

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dynamical [chemical] systems view on the emergence of heredity in evolution: "This paper proposes that early chemical systems could preserve and pass on differences through stable chemical states rather than through stored sequences like DNA or RNA" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 #Complexity #EvoBio

Behavior of compartments in environments selecting for different autocatalyst composition.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👇 Good advice... 🧪

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If we call a modern species poor deeply diverging lineage or "depauperon" (as it is dubbed in the article) the "basal" lineage, then we should admit that the hominids including humans are the "basal" stock for Old World monkey. Right? 😉 academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio

From the Abstract: "Our results highlight the limits of using extant, species-depauperate lineages to infer deep ancestors and the importance of fossils and other evidence that more directly sample early evolutionary history."

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

J. Alroy's (johnalroy.bsky.social) article on the unreliability of the coverage-based rarefaction; also known in paleontology as the SQS subsampling, in estimating species richness. Use other techniques folks... nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

Violin plots (Adler et al. 2025) showing diversity estimates yielded by seven estimators when applied to data simulated under three distributions.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interesting article on the geophysical and geodynamic constraints of the Early Earth in the Hadean on the origins and persistence of the RNA organisms: "...frequent global sterilization events persisted up until about 4.4 Ga..." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Volume for biocompatible mild temperatures in the range 20–50 °C

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

With these tools the identification of anonymous reviewers of papers is pretty easy these days. There are two ways: 1) use soulless AI which would not reveal your style. But it is explicitly banned in most journals due risk of leaking. 2) Reveal yourself and be polite. arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800 🧪

The first page of the paper on LLM deanonymization

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looks liek a promissing general approach for the choice of characters (in this application -- the genomic ones). Complexity approach on improving the phylogenetic inference with highlighting highly heterogenous regions of the genome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Salt (NaCl) as the helper of thrust-fault tectonic movement: "The overall mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts are significantly different in the presence of salt ...because at typical shaIlow-crustal temperatures salt is exceptionally weak." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪⚒️ #Geology

Estimation of stress versus depth in fold belts

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A 2.34 m, 71 kg Notiomastodon tusk recently found in San Pedro. wakeup.sg/ancient-mast...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just a reminder, that birds had 1.6 times more history before the K-Pg impact than the duration of the Cenozoic Era. My bet would be that we are severely underestimating Mesozoic diversity of birds (stem or crown). www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio

Simplified summary time-scaled tree of the phylogenetic relationships of Mesozoic Avialae. All taxa except Neornithes areextinct; thicker boxes mark the temporal range of each taxon recorded by their fossil record; shaded areas indicate regions ofparticular phylogenetic uncertainty. Fading branches indicate uncertain placement and phylogenetic disconnect between Early andLate Cretaceous taxa. Divergence times largely based on those from M. Wang et al. (2021).

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gift from kids. Improper CLAMP-like analysis of the leaf shapes suggests the average yearly temperatures of 8 - 12 °C (Real one for Lithuania is 8.3 °C).

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today I've learned that Douglas Erwin is (classical) palaeontology doomer. Is it that bad in US palaeontology? journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio

Concluding remarks from Douglas Erwin article "Quo Vadis Paleontology"

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The macroscale occurences of iron-rich duricrust regoliths in South-Eastern Africa reflects Eon-scale evolution of the megaclimate in this region. With warm and humid periods corresponding to Devonian, Late Cretaceous and Quaternary. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪⚒️ #Geology

The up-to-date model of evolution of theNPthrough the geological times.

Localization, geological characteristics and uplift history of the Nyika
plateau (NP)

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm also worrying about this thing. In this case, given such a niche field (which I've never heard before I've watched this video), I guess chance is pretty low, but not negligible.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The explanation of extremely arcane subject of the meta-mathematics or the foundations of math: AI apparently can help progress here, e.g. by proving the undecidability of Medvedev's logic, thus creating an oxymoron field of empirical theoretical math 😃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LT... 🧪

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Mathematics foundations problem settled using AI: Medvedev logic is undecidable

YouTube video by Dr. Samuel Allen Alexander

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE, ~183 Ma) was a major hyperthermal event...Our simulations indicate the release of ~18,000 Pg C of predominantly magmatic carbon..." The scale is impressive, but I guess there is an order of magnitude uncertainty.. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology

Comparison of published estimates of carbon release during the T-OAE with our cGENIE model results

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The things we need the most, when all the surrounding works against them!

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can imagine such a case. The Northern Europe if we take the average of the last 1 Ma are under the glaciers, but for the brief moment of Holocene we are among the lush forests.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the authors of the book, Mike Foote is one of the sharpest paleontologists out there. Here is his talk in the conference dedicated to the sesquicentennial jubilee of the "On the Origin of Species": www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdLY...

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Michael Foote

YouTube video by John Waldron

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The fossil record not only constrains the evolution in the space-time. But it also gives the insights on the physical properties of the world at macro scale. Think about this find of Miocene capybaras in Atacama, which points to recency of the desert. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio

Trans-Andean dispersal pathways of late Miocene capybaras.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes, this is a great book. Can be used for different kinds of inspirations on research programs. A neat summary of issues, approaches, and techniques in paleontology from the point of view of macroevolutionary paleobiologists. Oldie but goldie.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you for sharing this. Apparently the 3rd Edition of the Principles of Paleontology is freely downloadable. 🧪⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"When group structure carries...microscopic information, higher-order representations may remain the most direct, interpretable, and parsimonious description, as well as the natural framework for understanding how microscopic organization gives rise to macroscopic behavior.." 2/2

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One more banger defending the necessity of the higher-order interactions: "Yet reducibility does not necessarily imply simplification, as information removed from the interaction structure may reappear as complexity in the effective dynamics..." arxiv.org/abs/2609.200... 1/2 🧪 #Complexity

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When higher-order interactions matter: reducibility, parsimony, and microscopic organization

The current debate on higher-order interactions raises a fundamental question: when can systems organized through group interactions be faithfully represented within a graph-based formalism? Recent re...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Environmental systems are characterized by complex spatial interactions that cannot be fully described through pairwise relationships or local uncertainty measures." 🧪⚒️ #Complexity #Geology arxiv.org/abs/2609.18439

Environmental field in the area of Gargano.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇

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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same here. It registers in my brain as "new" and "fresh" book.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brain-glitch, it was published 19 years ago in 2007...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The "Principles of Paleontology, 3rd Edition" is absolutely legendary textbook--as its Sta./Raup predecessors. This book helped me to bootstrap myself into paleobiology. It is now 21 years old now. Science of paleontology needs new hard conceptual paleontology textbook 🧪⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio

The book cover of the "Principles of Paleontology"

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Measurements of three T. rex teeth from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation yield a temperature of 36.3 ± 2.5°C (1 SE), comparable to modern endotherms." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

Comparison of calculated Δ47 temperatures for T. rex, crocodilians, and bivalves from the HCF along with body temperature ranges of modern birds, mam-mals, and reptiles.

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